Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3,565, Jacob Fisher, Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Fisher Jacob Catharine
P 3,565
CONTENTS

Virginia 16.652
Quacumque Fideles
by Nicholas in the State of Pa who was a Pr; — in the Pa commanded by Captain Pa of the Pa commanded by Col: Pa — in the Pa line for 9 months.
Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia at the rate of 30 Dollars — Cents per annum. to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 11 th day of Sept r 1893. and Supt Sam l Price Nicholas C.H. Va
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1823 75- Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Mar '34 15-
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J. J. Moore — Clerk, Book E Vol. 6 Page 8.
Paid as above, from 4th Sep 1843 to 11th Sept 1844. Adgnt note 00 16 Apr 1845.
1839 Sept 1839 Oct 1839 Nov 1839 Dec 1839
 Feb 25 - Penn: Deborah March 35 - Catherine 21 - " Han. W. M. e  Conner H. O. & } on the way " Penn. Capt. Ree. S. 1835 } " Han. J. Johnson Feb 15. 1835  31. Decr 1841 to H. Marshall 1841. Age  100  years  old  born  1741  Age  notified 11 Sept  from  H. State 1836 to the act of the 6th  Jan as the hearing  before to 3 in  the  case to 6. J. Morgan 9.  to the to 3 in  the  case  voluntarily . 

No 219 p 5. Dart Fisher No.
Return for
Annika purate 9 mence $30.00
Samuel Price Nicholls Court House No.

WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office.
13 th May — 1835
Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjunctive notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will shew what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: { ). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.
A Statement, shewing the Service of Jacob Fisher Nicholas County
   Period when the service was rendered Duration of the claimant's service Rank of the claimant. Names and Rank of the Company officers under whom he served. Names and Rank of the General and Field officers. Battles in which the applicant was engaged. Country through which he marched. Place of abode when he entered the service, and age at the present period. Evidence by which the declaration is supported.   Years. Months. Days.     Subt 1778 or 1779 20 Priv Capt P. Rice Col Noll None No Aged 70 Traditionary   June " Lieut King " Wad Cockingham County Virg a Living   Subt 3 " Capt Stinker " Witness   Vol Fall 3 " "  
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c. Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of Private Armed Vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. The Regular Troops. 2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers. 3. Persons employed in the Naval service. 4. Indian Spies.
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons, claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.
DECLARATION.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Territory, or District of } ss. County of }
On this _____ day of _____ personally appeared (a) before A. B. a resident (b) of _____ in the county of _____ and State, Territory or District of _____ aged (c) _____ years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) _____, with _____ and served in the _____ (e) regiment of the _____ line, under the following named officers:
 [Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.] 
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of _____
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
A. B.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
I do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the Court of the application of for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this day of _____ &c.
If, on examination of the proper record the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the _____ and C. D. residing in (the same) _____, who has hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with _____, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be _____ years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A. B. who has signed the preceding certificate is the person described in and who was entitled to the
who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the and that C. D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I, _____ Clerk of the Court of _____ do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of _____ for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this _____ day of _____ &c.
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration (1) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person

will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County, in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
 1. Where and in what year were you born?  2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?  3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?  4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?  5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.  6. { To a Soldier. } Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given and what has become of it? { To an Officer. } Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?  7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution. 
The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons -one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify, to the character and standing of other persons, giving such certificates.
The traditional evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Court by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.
[a] The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
[b] The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
[c] The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
[d] The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
[e] Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service; but, according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades:—For _____ year _____ months, and _____ days, I served as a _____. For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension."
It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months , is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
[f] The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
[g] The opinion of the Court is always required.
[h] The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
[i] The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
Proof of Service.
[j] In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
[k] The notes from [a] to [j] are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule in note [j] applies to continental troops only.
[l] This traditional evidence is indispensable in militia cases. not any clergyman in the neighborhood
[m] The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.

State of Virginia } County of Braxton } ss
On this 21 st day of August A.D. 1858 personally came Henry Robeson of the said county a credible witness to me well known before me Thomas Salisbury a justice of the peace within the said county of Braxton. And after being duly sworn according to law. Deposeth and saith that he is 68. years old.
That he was personally acquainted with Jacob Fisher in his life time down to his death which took place at the house of William Kettler on Holly River (or the backfork of same) and in the said county of Braxton, on or about the 15 th day of October 1846. that he saw him in his last sickness and was at his burial death.
And that he left a widow whose name was Catharine who survived him after he died until the about the 16 th of November 1850, at which time she died, also, at the house of the Widow of the said William Kettler in said county of Braxton and the same house where her said husband died.
He further saith that the said Jacob Fisher several years before his death and while a citizen of Nicholas County and before the organization of Braxton County filed his application, as a Revolutionary soldier and obtained a pension certificate but for what amount, affiant can't now state of his own personal recollection, but that he heard the said Jacob Fisher say afterwards that his pension was reduced to Thirty Dollars, and that he often complained of it to affiant but he was rather an Ignorant Dutchman and could never give the cause.
And he further saith that the said Catharine Fisher (his widow) after the death of her said husband drew the fraction years that was due to her husband from the time

of his last draft, to the time of his death, and he don't think she ever made any other application for the pension that was due her as such Widow, after the death of her said husband, And that she remained a widow from the death of her said husband until she died also,
He saith further that he first became acquainted with the said Jacob and Catharine in the County of Pendleton, and in said state of Virginia about the year 1790, and that Affiant also lived in the said last named County and that Affiant and the said Jacob Fisher moved to Waver about 40, years ago and settled within two and a half miles of each other and that they continued to live there until the death of the said Jacob & Catharine,
A circumstance that makes him recollect the time of the death of the said Catharine is that he was at the Circuit Court of said County of Braxton, and that on his way home he heard that the said Catharine was dead, and when he came home that his Family went to her burial and that during the said Court a suit of some importance was tried between William Hannick and Robert Safford, that makes him recollect the time, And further that William Newton told him that he was coming up to prosecute her claim for the Pension that was due her from the time of the death of her said husband, and that he also started to come up, to see her and heard she was dead, these with other occurrences makes him recollect the time of her death, And that the said Jacob Fisher, and the said Catharine were reputed as husband and wife and that they inhabited together as such husband and wife, and raised Eight children four boys &

to her husband the said Jacob Fisher, to wit from the 4 th day of September 1845 to the 15 th day of October 1846, and that at the time of the said acknowledgement the said Catharine delivered to said Justice said Fisher's certificate of Pension which certificate the said Justice enclosed in said Power of Attorney and transmitted the same to James Bennett Esqr Attorney for said Catharine to draw said residuary Pension, and the said Sutton further states that he cannot refer to the period of the death of said Catharine but he believes she remained a Widow, and he never heard of her drawing any Pension except the residuary Pension referred to above and which was due to her husband the said Jacob Fisher at the time of his death, and the said Sutton further states that he has no interest whatever in reference to said Pension
August 24 th 1856
Felix Sutton
Sworn to and subscribed before me and in my county of Braxton on the day and year last above written and I certify that I am personally acquainted with the affiant Felix Sutton and know him to be a credible witness and that he is a resident of the said county of Braxton in the state of Virginia and that I have no interest in this claim and am not engaged in its prosecution
J. S. Camden J.P.

four, Girls, of which five are still living; And that he has no interest in this claim and not engaged in its prosecution.
Henry Roberson
Sworn to and subscribed before me and in my county, on the day and year first above written & I certify that I know the affiant to be a credible witness and that I have no interest in this claim and not engaged in its prosecution
Wm Saulsbury J.P.
The statement of Felix Sutton who says that he was well acquainted with the late Jacob Fisher referred to by Mrs. Mollohan and Roberson and also by Squire Saulsbury that he the said said Sutton as a Justice of the Peace in Brexton County, on several occasions previous to the death of said Fisher, took said Fisher's acknowledgement to a Power of Attorney to draw said Fisher's Pension, that on the acknowledgement of said Power of Attorney the said Fisher always exhibited to said Justice his certificate of Pension, which said Sutton believes is correctly recited by said Mollohan, the said Sutton further states that he was well acquainted with said Fisher and his wife Catharine; that he believes that the said Fisher died on the 15 th of October 1846, that the said Sutton as Justice as aforesaid did on the 19 th day of November 1846 take the said Catharine Fisher's acknowledgement of a Power of Attorney to draw the residuary Pension then due.

Lewis County to wit
William Radcliff personally appeared before me and made oath that he knew Jacob Fisher (a resident of Nicholas County in Virginia), ever since his youth. That he was in the company of a Colonel James Henson marched from Hardy County. That he and said Fisher were companions and stationed near Winchester in Va. to guard British prisoners taken at York Town in Virginia. said Fisher served three months and left absent there who was a substitute for a certain Samuel Harpold's affi. and knows said Fisher knows he is the same man and that he is about 70 years of age subscribed and sworn to this 29. Sept. 1832.
William his Radcliff mark.
Given under my hand this day above M c Camp S. P. D.
Lewis County to wit
George Fisher aged 64 years maketh oath before me that he is the brother of Jacob Fisher that the said Jacob Fisher when between 16 and 17 years of age which was about the year 1798 or 99 went as a substitute for his father who was drafted to go a tour in the Virginia Militia from Rockingham county

Where he then lived. he was to much wiser a certain Captain John Rice. Major Lucy Hamilton Col. Brade. This officer was then a boy about 10 or 11 years old he remembers well that his brother Jacob started on the Lower in was gone about seven months. whilst gone his father removed from Rockingham to Hardy County in Va when Jacob returned. (The next Spring or July he again started to what is now Harrison County at Blacksville as a substitute for some men whose name officer cannot now rec- ollect. in this trip he went under as well as I now recollect under Lieutenant Spencer Baird. he was gone as officer below in that town about four months. when he returned which was about the time Lord Cornwallis was captured as officer then heard. The said Jacob then volunteered to go a three months tour to Winchester to guard British prisoners taken at Yorktown. Jacob was gone in this tour about four months. he started under a captain James Stinson. officer now lives in Lewis County. his brother Jacob lives in Nicholas. Jacob is 70 years old and officer is 64. subscribed and sworn to this 29 th day of Sept. 1832. George Fisher
Given under my hand this day above
Wm Camp J.P. Del

I do hereby certify that James M. Camp is an acting justice of the peace for the County of Lewis in Virginia September 29 th 1832
Lewis Maxwell
Virginia
Lewis County S
is
I James M. Camp a Justice of the Peace for the County of Lewis aforesaid before whom the foregoing affidavits of William Radcliff Radcliff and George Fisher were on the 29 th September 1832 taken, do hereby certify that the said William Radcliff & George Fisher are credible persons. Given under my hand this 18 th day of July 1833.
J. M. Camp J.P.
Virginia
Lewis County S
I John Talbot Clerk of the County Court of Lewis aforesaid do hereby certify that James M. Camp is a Justice

of the Premises above and that the foregoing Signatures to the affidavits of William Radcliff and George Fisher and to the Certificate of their credibility purporting to be the signatures of the said James M. Camp are genuine.
In Testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affixed my Seal of Office At Weston this 19 th day of July 1833.
J. Salbott

Jacob Fisher
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State of Virginia } Nicholas County } Sub
on the 8 th day of January 1833 personally ap- peared in open Court before the County Court of Nicholas non sitting Jacob Fisher a resident of said County and State of Virginia aged 70 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the ben- efit of the act of Congress passed June the 7 th 1832 That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated He entered the service as a substitute for his father George Fisher for a draft of three months under Captain - Rice perhaps John Rice - He then lived in the County of Rockingham and State of Virginia - This was in the year of 1778 or 1779 as he thinks - He does not know in what month but it was in the fall of the year - He was marched to Portsmouth where he joined the Continental army. He was marched to Norfolk, to Portsmouth to Edmunds Hills where he was stationed about one month He was marched to the Carolina hoops near the Big Swamp and there received his discharge from the Army from a tour of three months service - But he received no written discharge - but - Voll commanded the Regiment to which he belonged and Major Guy Ham- ilton belonged to the same Regiment who resided in Rockingham County Virginia - He recollects seeing Genl George Washington while in the service who re- ceived the Army - But he does not recollect the names of any the inferior Generals -
In the month of June following his aforesaid discharge but he does not recollect the year he again entered the service as a substitute for a man whose name he does not recollect for a term of three months service when he entered the service he resided in Hardy County Virginia (to which place his father had removed whilst he was in the service as aforesaid) He entered the service under Lieutenant Cornelious King and was marched to the North fork of the South fork of Branch of Potomac River to Snakins fort where he remained

a short time and was then marched to Clarkesburg which is now in Harrison County Virginia and remained there during the balance of his said term of three months where he received his discharge - but it was not a written discharge - This tour of service was directed entirely against the Indians and intended to guard the frontiers of Virginia against their depredations. Such Cornelius King was the highest officer belonging to this detachment of troops -
In the next succeeding fall after his return home from Clarkesburg he volunteered for another three months tour of service - He went from the County of Hardy in the State of Virginia under Captain James Stinson and was marched to Winchester Virginia to guard troops he thinks the the troops of Lord Cornwallis he served his term of three months at Winchester in guarding troops or at the Barracks in the neighbourhood of that place. He was here again discharged from the service but he did not receive a written discharge - He does not know in what year or month he was born but from a calculation made by one of his neighbours last spring he was made to be seventy years of age then. He cannot read English nor calculate by figures consequently he cannot say himself how old he is but he thinks he is upwards of seventy years of age - His age is recorded at home taken out of his father's bible from which his neighbours made the above said calculation - He was born in the State of Pennsylvania but he does not know the name of the County. He resided in Rockingham and Hardy Counties Virginia when called into the service - He resided in Pendleton County Virginia after the Revolutionary War - until about twenty four or five years ago when he removed to the place where he now lives, then Randolph but now a Tuholsky County -
He went into the service two terms as a Substitute and one term as a volunteer - He is known to James McMillion and Allison McLaughlin in his neighbourhood who can testify as to his morality character for veracity and of their General belief of his service as a soldier of the revolution. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever

to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state. Since during all the time he served he was a private and never received a commission sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Jacob Fisher mark
We James McMillion and Adam McLaughlin residing in the County of Nicholas aforesaid do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jacob Fisher who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution; and that we concur in that belief. Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
J. McMillion
Adam McLaughlin
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that James McMillion and Adam McLaughlin who have signed the preceding certificate are residents in the County of Nicholas are credible persons and that their statements are entitled to credit; and that there is no clergy man residing in the neighborhood of the said applicant.
I Samuel Price Clerk of the Court of Nicholas County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Jacob Fisher for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 8 th day of January 1833 and in the 57 th year of our foundation
Samuel Price

Gallipolis Gallia Co. O. Ohio
Sept. 2 nd 1858
To The Hon; Commissioner of Pensions enclosed you will receive my application as administrator of Catherine Fisher Deceased. demanding pay that is due her as the Widow of Jacob Fisher Dec d a Revolutionary Soldier
The heirs of the said Catherine has solicited me to file the said application for some time past but I never done it until I was up in Virginia a few days ago, I have drawn up the said application in the absence of any Form as I have none. If it is not correct, or want in any particular please advise me of the deficiency that I may amend, though I presume there will be no difficulty about the claim, reference to the application of the said Jacob Fisher, and to his pension Certificate and the amount drawn by the said Catherine & the Evidence here accompanying the application will fully show the correctness of the claim
Yours truly
C. Mollahan

State of Virginia, County of Braxton } ss
On this 21 st day of August A D 1858 personally came Charles Millihan now a resident of Gallipolis Ohio. Administrator of Catharine Fisher deceased who was widow of Jacob Fisher deceased before me Thomas Saulsbury a justice of the peace within my said County and after being duly sworn according to law declares that he was personally acquainted with the said Jacob Fisher in his life time, and with the said Catharine Fisher in her life time, and that the said Jacob Fisher was a Revolutionary soldier, as he has often told him, (in his life time) and that as such soldier the said Jacob Fisher filed his application, while he was a citizen of Nicholas County Virginia and that he received a pension certificate dated the 11 th day of September 1833, and No. 16652, which said certificate, was lost and a duplicate by him was obtained, as he is advised, The following is copied from a copy retained by Felix Sutton, Esq. his agent when the said duplicate was returned, after the death of the said Jacob Fisher in compliance with the requisition of the department,
War Department Revolutionary Claim
I certify that in conformity with the United States of the 7 th of June 1832 Jacob Fisher of the state of Virginia was a private in the army of the Revolution, is entitled to receive Thirty dollars - Cents, per annum during his natural life. Commencing on the 4 th of September in every year, issued in lieu of one dated 11 th , September 1833, and No 16.652 which has been lost or destroyed
Given at the war office of the United States this Examined and Counter } 27 th , day of December, One Thousand Eight signed } hundred and Thirty Eight.
J. L. Edwards
Commissioning Officer
J. R. Poinsett
Secretary of War

Endorsed on Back of Certificate
Payment to be made at Richmond by J. Brockenbrough Esq. agent for paying pension in the agency of Virginia Recorded in the pension office in Book E. Vol. 6.
Page 8. by H. S. Evans clerk.
And that the said Jacob Fisher died in the said County of Branton, On Holly River, at the House of William Cutlip on Holly River the 15 th of October 1846, according to the best means he has of knowing, and when he died he left a Widow whose name was Catherine, who survived him, and that continued as such Widow , until she died also , whose said death , took place in said County of Branton at the same place her husband died, on the 16 th of November 1850, and that she as such Widow drew the amount of Pension that was due to her said husband when he died for the Fraction years, commencing, on the 4 th of September 1845 and ending the 15 th of October 1846, as he is informed by the said Felix Sutton Esq. and that the said Catherine Fisher never drew any other money that was due her as the widow of the said Jacob Fisher deceased who was such Pensioner as before stated.
He makes this declaration as the proper representative of the said Catherine Fisher deceased for the purpose of obtaining a certificate of the amount of Money that may be due to the said Catherine Fisher widow as before stated for Four years One month and one day that she lived after her husband departed this life, and that was by her undrawn and for which she never applied as he is informed.
He makes this application under all the laws made and provided for such pensioners, and that he knows of no record of the death, of the said Catherine Fisher,
W. Mollahan
Administrator of Catherine Fisher deceased

I sworn to and subscribed before me and in my county, On the day and year first above written, and I certify that I was personally acquainted with the Jacob Fisher in the foregoing Declaration mentioned, and know that he was such Pensioner, and that he told him, that William Neulon, once acted as his agent, and that Felix Sutton Esqr. acted as he acted for him him as such for himself rather managed his papers for several years before his death, which took place in said Braxton County, Va and that he left a widow whose name was Catharine. Who continued as such Widow until she died also, whose said death took place in the said County of Braxton. That I saw her in her last sickness which was some time in the fall of 1850, according to the best of my knowledge knowing, but can't certify to the day when she died,
Thos Salsbury J.P.

Revtran
13024 INVALID.
Rev
File No. 13.024
Jacob Fisher Paul R.W. War
Act: June 7 th 1832.
Index:—Vol. _____, Page _____
[Arrangement of 1870.]

REJECTED
3565
P.O. Catharine Fisher
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
ALL

N o 15,495.
Catharine Fisher, wid o of Jacob. John Va
C. Mollohan. Sept. 10/58
3565
Rejected.
AKP 7 th July, 1838

Dec 8
Miss Fisher Va Null
1852
J I Edwards born mispinner of Pensions Washington City

Washington City Decmbr the 7 th 1835
Dr
Sir You will please Examine the inclosed letter and power of attorney and Answer me as soon as possible yours Most respectfully
Wm Wilson

WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office,
18 th May - 1833
SIR :
I return herewith the papers in support of the claims of the persons whose names are  this hereto annexed.
These papers are in several respects defective. Each case is accompanied by a brief. The objections are contained in the negative answers, in red ink, given to the questions.
Particular attention should be paid to the accompanying regulations and to the explanatory notes subjoined to the brief.
The extraordinary press of business in this office, arising from the great number of claims under the act of June 7, 1832, has hitherto prevented us from attending to the applications sent by you. The investigation of the cases presented under this law has been difficult and laborious, and notwithstanding the greatest exertions have been made by this Department, an earlier attention to your business has been found impracticable.
The brief has been prepared to meet all cases, and thus to save the excessive labor which would otherwise be imposed upon the office, and which would consume so much time as to render the delay two fold greater than it now is in the investigation of claims and writing letters. Each case is considered correct in all respects except in relation to those questions to which a negative answer is affixed. No other alteration or addition will be required.
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant, .
J. Edwards
Samuel Price Esq. Nicholas C. H. Va
Jacob Fisher.

Jacob Fisher - Pen Nicholas county.
Encl. to

Jacob Fisher, Pension drawn $30 per annum.
I the undersigned Jacob Fisher, having been called on by Mr. G. Singletree, for a narrative of my Revolutionary services, and statements of my age, give the following to wit - I am seventy two or three years of age - When in my sixteenth year of age, I can't tell in what year, I went as a substitute in the place of my Father, for a 3 months time from Rockingham County N.C. under Capt. Micah Hallett, Uriah Graden. There were two companies of men, under the command of Col. John Gray & Hallett - We marched through Richmond and I think to Norfolk, and thence to Edmunds Hill - and from there into Carolina, and found the Carolina Column - We saw many of the British soldiers, but can't tell how many companies, nor where we did find them - We can't tell where we found the entire British Column, nor who commanded them - I was out my time of 3 months, returned home about the first of April and in the succeeding June, I substituted again, for a man whose name I have forgot, for 3 months, I marched under Lieut. Hearn, with 20 or 30 men, to join the American army, to Brattleboro' Fort on the North Fork of the French River, and from thence to Clark'sburg - and served out the time - returned in the fall of the same, went to Wachapreague, served under Capt. James Stinson for 3 months regarding the British Prisoners, then ended my services. I saw Price wrote my declaration like him at same time - agreed to give him $20. if he got a pension. In writing of an article I have to subtract my name Jan'y 15. 1835 Wachapreague. A Copy W. G. Singletree Jacob Fisher his mark

Means this man is an ignorant, stupid, and an ignoramus, but to his character.
Yours sincerely & obedient servant W. G. Gargrave
Aug 15 1835
Means - Mr. Fisher is an ignorant Dutchman, but I believe an honest man - such I understand is his character
W. Gargrave
Aug 20 1835

Feb 7
Herb Fisher Nashville
16652
Isaac Rose
abt 1818 died in
29 or 30. yrs
26 Jan 20
to memo
J. G.
J. Edward
Johnston J. G.
Pension Office
D. C.

House of Rep. Feb. 6 th 1939
H on Edwards is respectfully requested to give the information asked in the enclosed letter
Very Respectfully Your old Serv t
Joseph Johnson

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE.
January 7 th 1846.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents, Jacob Fisher ————— a Pensioner on the Roll of the Richmond, Va. Agency, at the rate of — Thirty ————— Dollars and ————— Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of Sept. 1843, to the 4 th Sept. 1844.
Respectfully, yours,
William H. Parris
Comptroller.
To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS, Present.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
Dec. 15 th , 1841.
Sir:
Under the date of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," Jacob Fisher — a Pensioner on the Roll of the Richmond, Va. Agency, at the rate of Thirty — Dollars and — Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 1 st of Sept. 1840, to the 1 st March 1841,
Respectfully, yours,
Wilson B. Purvis
Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
September 6 th , 1839.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," Jacob Fisher, _____ a Pensioner on the Roll of the Richmond, Va. Agency, at the rate of Thirty — Dollars and _____ Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of Sept., 1836, to the 4 th Sept., 1838.
Respectfully, yours,
Edward E. Parris Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions, Present.

J. L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington City
Mr. [unclear] July 26

Richmond Virginia, July 25, 1839.
James L. Edwards Esq. Commission of Pensions, &c.
Sir,
I am under the necessity of Enclosing a letter from Peter Hagner Esq., on the subject of Jacob Fisher's Pension. Mr. Fisher is from a new County, where the Court has not provided a seal and the Clerk has authenticated the paper to in manner usual, in such cases, by attaching his own seal, or scroll, which by our law is as good as a seal set with a tenacious substance. This, it was supposed, was sufficient. Mr. Hagner returns the paper that "it may be prepared to the satisfaction "of the Commissioners of Pensions."
I have applied to your agent here, who is unable to advise me of any other mode of authentication in such case. I beg you, therefore, to indulge me so far, as to inform me of the mode of authentication to be adopted, so that I can communicate the same to the Pensioner for his most information, and government.
I am your ob't serv't
C. S. Morgan

Virginia.
County of Braxton, ss.
On this 3 rd day of December A. D. 1838. Before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace for the said County of Braxton. personally appeared Jacob Fisher who on his oath declared that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the Company Commanded by Capt Rice, Major Guy Hamilton, Col. Paul part of time & — Col. the remainder of his first tour, also, Lieutenant Corning's band, in 2 nd tour, also Capt James Stinson, the Major nor Col. not recollected. the 3 rd tour. In the service of the United States. that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of Virginia. that he received a Certificate of that fact under the signature and seal of the Secretary of War which Certificate he placed into the hands of a certain Addison M. Laughlin his agent who attended to the drawing of his money on or about the day of September 1834 that he so held the certificate and drew for him until, or up, to the 4 th of September 1836 that after the 4 th of Sept. that there was not a year. he called on said M. Laughlin his before mentioned agent for the certificate in order that he might draw the amount due him up to that time, but the said M. Laughlin alleged that he had either lost or mislaid the Certificate. that he has not drawn any money since the 4 th of Sept 1836
Jacob Fisher Mark
Sworn & subscribed to before me The day & year aforesaid }
J. H. Camden J.P.

Virginia Braxton County ss.
Attestation M c Laughlin personally appeared before me the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace in for said County and made oath that he well knows the said Jacob Fisher to be the same person described in the above affidavit
A. M c Laughlin
I certify that the foregoing Certificate was sworn to and subscribed before me this 4 th day of December 1838.
L. D. Gammon J. P. B. C.
I also certify that the said Attestation M c Laughlin is a man of veracity. Dec. 4 th 1838.
L. D. Gammon J. P. B. C.
Braxton County ss.
Before the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace in for said County personally appeared Attestation M c Laughlin and made oath that he had Jacob Fisher's Certificate as set forth by him in his foregoing declaration, that he has either lost or mislaid it, and under my hand this 4 th Dec r 1838.
L. D. Gammon J. P. B. C.

State of Virginia Braxton County } to wit
I William Newton Clerk of the County Court of Braxton County and State aforesaid. Certify that I have no official seal of office since under my hand this 5 th day of December 1838
W m Newton C l B.C.
I certify that William Newton is Clerk of the County Court of Braxton Co. and I believe the above signature purporting to be his is genuine Joseph Johnson
Washington Dec r 22 nd 1838

C. Mollohan
{ application
Catharine Fisher deed

Virginia to wit;
At a County Court held in and for the County of Braxton, at the Court House of said County on Wednesday the 21. day of October 1846,
It appearing to the Court by satisfactory evidence that Jacob Fisher was a Pensioner of the United States at the rate of $30. per year, a resident of this County, died in said County on the 15 instant, that he left a widow whose name is Catharine.
Copy - Test Jno P. Byrne clk
Virginia to wit;
At a County Court continued and held in and for the County of Braxton at the Court House of said County, on Friday the 8 th day of April 1838,
On motion of Charles Mollahan who made oath according to law, and together with John P. Byrne his security, entered into and acknowledged a bond in the penalty of five hundred dollars, payable to the Commonwealth of Virginia conditioned according to law, Certificate is granted the said Charles Mollahan for obtaining letters of administration on the personal estate of Catharine Fisher deceased, in due form.
Copy. Test Jno P. Byrne clk
State of Virginia Braxton County to wit;
I. John P. Byrne Clerk of the County Court of said County in the State aforesaid do hereby certify that the above two orders on this page are correctly copied from the records of my office, I further certify that Thomas Scarborough, whose name is signed to the Declaration

above, of Charles Mollahan administrator of Catherine Fisher deceased, and to the disposition of Henry Roberson was at the time of signing the same a Justice of the peace in & for said County duly authorized by law to administer oaths and take acknowledgements & that full faith & credit are due & ought to be given to all his official acts as such, and I further Certify that John S. Camden whose name is signed to the foregoing disposition of Felix Sutton, was at the time of signing the same a Justice of the peace in & for said County, duly authorized by law to administer oaths & take acknowledgements, and that full faith & credit are due to all his official acts as
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 26. day of August 1858.
Jno O. Ryne